October 24, 2014 AT 2:00 pm

Here’s my instructable for a home build timelapse dolly. The pro rigs for this are pretty pricey, so I made my own 🙂

The heart of this machine is a Raspberry PI, a low cost small footprint computer. It runs linux so it’s easy to write and deploy code on it. It also has a GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) connector which we can control.

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